In re Lindner
District Court, E.D. New York
In the matter of the application of Karl Albert Rindner for a writ of mandamus,. directed against the clerk of the District Court.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
The applicant seems well disposed to the United States. His wife was born in this country and appears to protest against her alien status by marriage. As soon as possible the *139applicant attempted to file (on March 12, 1917) his petition, and evidently could be naturalized at once if the application had been received. His failure to perfect the filing of liis papers was dtte to the mistake of a clerk in another court, who omitted his signature from the certified copy of the declaration of intention. The clerk of this district refused to allow the applicant to complete…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. MeyerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1917
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